Category Archives: Seafood

Now I am not Southern, well at least not that southern, but I do love The Living Daylights out of some southern food. I’m talking collard greens, mac and cheese, fried chicken, crawfish, catfish, all the fish. I know it isn’t good for me but damn if it isn’t tasty sometimes. So I was chatting with my sister and decided, quite at random, that we need to do a low country boil. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, let ms enlighten you. Picture if you will: shrimp; crawdad; potatoes; corn; Smoked sausage; and enough Cajun seasoning to titalate your tastebuds all boiled together to completion. Now serve it with some drawn butter, cocktail sauce, and a remoulade sauce.
Now I’m no expert on this, frankly I’m doing this by the seat of my pants, but I know what tastes good at least to me and I’m going to make me some boiled shrimp, I am.

The Ingredients:

2 lbs shrimp: uncooked, shells on, deviened.

3 lbs crawfish: alive if you can get em, ya can’t here in AZ

2 lbs smoked sausage: cut into 2 inch pieces.

1 packet zaterans shrimp boil seasoning

3 lbs red potatoes: rinsed

6 ears of corn: if at all possible use fresh, frozen is fine but the texture is diffrent.

1/2 Cup hot sauce

The Process

Bring 2 gallons of water to a boil with the seasoning bag.

When water is boiling add in the potatoes and sausage. Boil for approx 20 minutes.

When I was younger I got a chance to go to Spain. What I remember the most was the food and the architecture. The food most of all, and of all of it the paella was the best! So much fresh seafood available off the Mediterranean.